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Euroscipy 2010: code, science, and a lot of fun

Euroscipy 2010, the third European conference for the use of Python in science, is just over, and I think it was a great success.

Euroscipy in numbers

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The attendance this year was huge: there was a grand total of 160 who came to EuroScipy, with 140 that came only to …

A simple LaTeX example

A simple LaTeX document, to use as a skeletton

Personal views on scientific computing

My contributions to the scientific computing software ecosystem are motivated by my vision on computational science.

Scientific research relies more and more on computing. However, most of the researchers are not software engineers, and as computing is becoming ubiquitous, the limiting factor becomes more and more the human factor [G …

EuroScipy abstract submission deadline extended

Given that we have been able to turn on registration only very late, the EuroScipy conference committee is extending the deadline for abstract submission for the 2010 EuroScipy conference.

On Thursday May 20th, at midnight Samoa time, we will turn off the abstract submission on the conference site. Up to …

New Mayavi release

A week ago, the Peter Wang released a new version of the Enthought Tool Suite (ETS). With it came a new version of Mayavi2.

Prabhu and I have been horribly busy we real life, and I had the bad feeling that we were not giving enough love to Mayavi. I …

EuroScipy 2010, Paris July 8-11. Save the date!

EuroScipy 2010, the 3rd European meeting on Python in Science, will be held July 8-11 in the center of Paris, at the Ecole Normale Supérieure.

We have made good progress in the organization, and we already have an exciting program although paper submission is not yet even open.

Tutorial tracks …

The SciPy 2009 proceedings are online

We are finally announcing the online edition of SciPy proceedings:

http://conference.scipy.org/proceedings/SciPy2009/

This year, we tried to raise the bar in terms of article quality. This involved having a more strict review process, and we must thank a lot all the reviewers. I have the feeling …

Announcing EuroScipy 2010

The 3rd European meeting on Python in Science

Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure, July 8-11 2010

We are happy to announce the 3rd EuroScipy meeting, in Paris, July 2010.

The EuroSciPy meeting is a cross-disciplinary gathering focused on the
use and development of the Python language in scientific research. This
event …

General relativity, quantum physics, freely-falling planes and Bayesian statistics

We’re famous: the work that concluded my PhD is now picked up by the press http://www.physorg.com/news179481148.html

I hadn’t realized before reading this journalist’s version of the story, but we have all the proper buzz words:

  • general relativity
  • quantum physics
  • freely-falling planes
  • Bayesian …

Acceleration estimation in atom-interferometric tests of the Einstein equivalence principle

Hurray! The pivot article that marks my transition from physics to statistic modeling is finally out:

How to estimate the differential acceleration in a two-species atom interferometer to test the equivalence principle G Varoquaux, R A Nyman, R Geiger, P Cheinet, A Landragin and P Bouyer

To put things in …